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Thanks for the tutorial! However, after running for a while Claymore's miner will stop mining while still using 100 percent of my GPU. How can I prevent this from happening? I wonder if there's a way to restart the batch file if it detects that it froze.

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2 hours ago, MSWindowsinside said:

Thanks for the tutorial! However, after running for a while Claymore's miner will stop mining while still using 100 percent of my GPU. How can I prevent this from happening? I wonder if there's a way to restart the batch file if it detects that it froze.

Did you open any applications that could possibly conflict with the miner?  I've found photoshop would do this - if you opened it while mining, it would take a ridiculously long time to open and become usable (like over a minute) and once it was, the miner would no longer work and would have to be restarted (after closing photoshop of course).

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I'm still trying to wrap my head how does someone get paid in cash by Ethereum mining?

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1 hour ago, hey_yo_ said:

I'm still trying to wrap my head how does someone get paid in cash by Ethereum mining?

by exchanging it on an online exchange like Kracken or Polonex for deposit to a nationalized bank account in fiat currency, ie, Dollars, Sheckles, Yen, Rubles, Dinars...

 

The short of it: You sell your computing power for reward in whatever the pool is paying, and you exchange it for whatever you want to be paid with if it isn't what the pool gives you. Maybe you'd rather own ZCash, or CanibisCoin. Last time I checked, the utility companies don't take DogeCoin for payment.

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18 minutes ago, knightslugger said:

The short of it: You sell your computing power for reward in whatever the pool is paying, and you exchange it for whatever you want to be paid with if it isn't what the pool gives you. Maybe you'd rather own ZCash, or CanibisCoin. Last time I checked, the utility companies don't take DogeCoin for payment.

But what is being mined? Sorry for the noob question because this guy is old. ?

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8 hours ago, hey_yo_ said:

But what is being mined? Sorry for the noob question because this guy is old. ?

"Mining" is simply you using your computing power to compute and verify the (block)chain of transactions on the pool.

 

That is what is meant by "Mining".

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On ‎8‎-‎10‎-‎2017 at 7:03 PM, Ryan_Vickers said:

Did you open any applications that could possibly conflict with the miner?  I've found photoshop would do this - if you opened it while mining, it would take a ridiculously long time to open and become usable (like over a minute) and once it was, the miner would no longer work and would have to be restarted (after closing photoshop of course).

The latest AMD Drivers fixed this issue entirely, the older blockchain drivers were my issue apparently.  The new drivers let you choose between gaming and compute workloads so there's no need for the beta drivers anymore.

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10 hours ago, MSWindowsinside said:

The latest AMD Drivers fixed this issue entirely, the older blockchain drivers were my issue apparently.  The new drivers let you choose between gaming and compute workloads so there's no need for the beta drivers anymore.

Hm, my theory was that is was an Open CL conflict.  Well, I can't verify this since I don't mine anymore but if this is true that's good to hear!

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Anyone use nvOS or rxOS on their rigs? Linux based... was going to load it up on my test rig tonight, wondering if anyone has any protips.

 

started mining Zen full time. seems to be doing really well on just a 1070 and 1080ti, though Zen is $10 / 1 ZEN, but SegWit2x is coming up, so i see bitcoin going up. When the fork hits, if previous forks are any indication of how alt coins do, between now and when the fork happens (sometime mid Nov is what many are projecting) would be a good time to buy up or trade your BTC for an altcoin.

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I just switched to ethminer, hashrate seems to be the same. But payout may be higher because you're not mining a devfee. 

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setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
ethminer.exe --farm-recheck 3000 -RH -G -S eu1.ethermine.org:4444 -FS us1.ethermine.org:4444 -O 0x806dEbe7f28cA8C1FB050DC2c0dd05b91BF9e873.WORKER

 

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On ‎31‎-‎10‎-‎2017 at 7:40 PM, knightslugger said:

Anyone use nvOS or rxOS on their rigs? Linux based... was going to load it up on my test rig tonight, wondering if anyone has any protips.

 

started mining Zen full time. seems to be doing really well on just a 1070 and 1080ti, though Zen is $10 / 1 ZEN, but SegWit2x is coming up, so i see bitcoin going up. When the fork hits, if previous forks are any indication of how alt coins do, between now and when the fork happens (sometime mid Nov is what many are projecting) would be a good time to buy up or trade your BTC for an altcoin.

Nope, I'm simpy mining on Windows 10. How much Zen do you get a day? ZenCash looks interesting but I'm not sure if I should make the switch to another coin.

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3 hours ago, MSWindowsinside said:

Nope, I'm simpy mining on Windows 10. How much Zen do you get a day? ZenCash looks interesting but I'm not sure if I should make the switch to another coin.

not very much, but i get paid 2-3 times a day, each transaction is at least .1 Zen. After 2 days i've got about .9 Zen.

 

I'm using a 1070 and a 1080ti configured for efficincy. 500 and 700 sol/s respectively. at about 3.5 sol/w each.

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1 hour ago, knightslugger said:

not very much, but i get paid 2-3 times a day, each transaction is at least .1 Zen. After 2 days i've got about .9 Zen.

 

I'm using a 1070 and a 1080ti configured for efficincy. 500 and 700 sol/s respectively. at about 3.5 sol/w each.

But Zen = ZenCash right? 0.9 ZenCash would be equal to 17.649 euros at the moment according to https://www.coingecko.com/en/price_charts/zencash/eur

If that's correct then I will switch lol, I've only earned 30 euros from Ethereum mining on an RX 580 in 3 weeks or so.

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6 hours ago, MSWindowsinside said:

I just switched to ethminer, hashrate seems to be the same. But payout may be higher because you're not mining a devfee. 

Here are my settings:

If the dev of the one I suggested is to be believed, he has enhancements that no one else does so ever with the 1% (iirc) fee, you will get several percent better than any other miner.  But then, I suppose it doesn't hurt to shop around to confirm that xD

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Ethereum is setting new record highs recently so if you have some to sell, be on the lookout for a good moment (or you know... hold it and hope it goes higher I guess)

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7 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Ethereum is setting new record highs recently so if you have some to sell, be on the lookout for a good moment (or you know... hold it and hope it goes higher I guess)

I've got a whopping 2 on Kraken! 

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I've got a whopping 2 on Kraken! 

Nice, that's more than enough for a 1080 Ti isn't it?

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Nice, that's more than enough for a 1080 Ti isn't it?

If it is, I'll be getting me three 1080@120Hz monitors! :x

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3 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

If it is, I'll be getting me three 1080@120Hz monitors! :x

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Even at the current price 2 Ether is worth ~$885 USD, but at the peak of over $510 each it would have been worth over $1000.  I can't see the future but I expect it to climb higher again at least in the short term

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In light of the recent NiceHash hack and the WAN show discussion about it, I'd like to say a few things:

  • If you have followed my instructions in the OP, there should be nearly no risk of losing your earnings due to a hack since you are not trusting another service like NiceHash, etc.  Only someone getting into your own computer would put you at risk, and if that happens, you probably have bigger issues anyway than a couple hundred bucks in ethereum
  • As a reiteration of a clarification I tried to make in the OP, you do not store your bitcoin/ethereum/etc., you just store the credentials necessary to access and transfer it.  The amount itself is "stored" (well not really but for all intents and purposes) in the blockchain, so think of it as "in the cloud", except there's no one else you have to worry about getting hacked - only whoever has access to your credentials, which, again, if you followed this, should only be you.

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13 hours ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

In light of the recent NiceHash hack and the WAN show discussion about it, I'd like to say a few things:

  • If you have followed my instructions in the OP, there should be nearly no risk of losing your earnings due to a hack since you are not trusting another service like NiceHash, etc.  Only someone getting into your own computer would put you at risk, and if that happens, you probably have bigger issues anyway than a couple hundred bucks in ethereum
  • As a reiteration of a clarification I tried to make in the OP, you do not store your bitcoin/ethereum/etc., you just store the credentials necessary to access and transfer it.  The amount itself is "stored" (well not really but for all intents and purposes) in the blockchain, so think of it as "in the cloud", except there's no one else you have to worry about getting hacked - only whoever has access to your credentials, which, again, if you followed this, should only be you.

:)

When LTT posted their video "Is mining still profitable?", aside from the many other issues many of us had with how they carried out their testing, when they mentioned they were going to use Nicehash, a big red flag went up in my mind. As you said, it is far more secure to mine for yourself, into your own 'standalone' wallet and transfer from there into your exchange account on a somewhat regular basis. 

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1 hour ago, Canada EH said:

please list gpus required to mine

AMD: HD & RX series

Nvidia: pretty much anything larger than 2GB

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2 minutes ago, knightslugger said:

AMD: HD & RX series

Nvidia: pretty much anything larger than 2GB

They made GT 740 with 4GB of vram, not sure those are worth to mine on :P

 

For Nvidia I would say any GTX card from the 750 and up and the GT 1030 (though it's not making much).

 

And not sure about the RX 550 or the cheap R5s (like the 230-240 or 340).

 

But yeah, close enough! ;)

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Whats it all about, hash rate

so there should be a list of gpu's with their hash rates or do I gotta scrounge for that info?

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